Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

=== Television ===
{{further|CBC Television|ICI Radio-Canada Télé|List of CBC Television stations|List of CBC Television Programs}}
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The CBC operates two national broadcast television networks: [[CBC Television]] in English, and [[ICI Radio-Canada Télé]] in French. Like private broadcasters, both of these networks sell advertising but offer more Canadian-produced programming. All CBC television stations are owned and operated by the CBC itself and carry a common schedule, aside from local programming and other [[regional variation]] (such as the [[CBC North]] stations in [[Nunavut]], the [[Northwest Territories]], and the [[Yukon]] carrying an additional newscast in the [[Inuktitut]] language and a weekly [[Cree language|Cree]] program), and [[CBET-DT]] in Windsor amending its non-primetime schedule at various points due to program rights conflicts with [[Detroit]] stations. {{Citation needed|date=April 2021}}

Both CBC's English and French networks previously had a number of private [[Network affiliate|affiliate]]s owned by third-party owners. However, the majority of them have either been bought by the CBC and subsequently shut down during the transition to digital television, or have switched to other networks and program services. The only remaining privately owned affiliate of any CBC-owned network is Ici Radio-Canada Télé affiliate [[CKRT-DT]] in [[Rivière-du-Loup]] (which is part of a [[Duopoly (broadcasting)|triplestick]] also containing private affiliates for Quebec's two private networks). {{Citation needed|date=April 2021}}

One of the most popular shows is the weekly Saturday night broadcast of [[National Hockey League|NHL]] [[Ice hockey|hockey]] games. In English, the program is known as ''[[Hockey Night in Canada]]'', and in French, it was called ''[[La Soirée du hockey]]''. Both shows began in 1952. The French edition was discontinued in 2004, though Radio-Canada stations outside of Quebec simulcast some Saturday night games produced by [[Réseau des sports|RDS]] until 2006. The network suffered considerable public embarrassment when it lost the rights to the show's [[The Hockey Theme|theme music]] following a protracted lawsuit launched by the song's composer and publishers.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Campbell |first=Charles |title=Mediacheck: How CBC Lost Its Hockey Theme |magazine=The Tyee |date=June 13, 2008 |url=https://thetyee.ca/Mediacheck/2008/06/13/HockeyAnthem/ |access-date=January 3, 2020 |archive-date=July 27, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200727063039/https://thetyee.ca/Mediacheck/2008/06/13/HockeyAnthem/ |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2013, the exclusive national media rights to the NHL were acquired by [[Rogers Media]], although Rogers would reach an agreement with the CBC to license the ''Hockey Night in Canada'' brand for use in its [[NHL on Sportsnet|coverage]] of Saturday-night games, and [[Brokered programming|broker]] a version of the broadcasts to CBC at no charge.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thestar.com/sports/hockey/2013/11/26/nhl_deal_with_rogers_a_huge_blow_to_tsn_and_cbc_mudhar.html|title=NHL deal with Rogers huge blow to CBC: Mudhar|work=Toronto Star|date=November 26, 2013|access-date=January 26, 2016|archive-date=November 29, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131129144226/http://www.thestar.com/sports/hockey/2013/11/26/nhl_deal_with_rogers_a_huge_blow_to_tsn_and_cbc_mudhar.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/rogers-cbc-sign-new-7-year-deal-hockey-night-canada/|title=Rogers and CBC sign new 7-year deal for Hockey Night in Canada|website=Sportsnet.ca|access-date=March 6, 2020|archive-date=July 26, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200726015430/https://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/rogers-cbc-sign-new-7-year-deal-hockey-night-Canada/|url-status=live}}</ref>

The CBC also wholly owns and operates three specialty television channels—the news channels [[CBC News Network]] and [[Ici RDI]], and the French-language network [[Ici Explora]]. It also owns a managing interest in the Francophone arts service [[ARTV]], and [[Documentary Channel (Canadian TV channel)|Documentary Channel]]. {{Citation needed|date=April 2021}}

CBC provides viewers with interactive on-demand television programs every year through [[digital cable|digital-cable]] services like [[Rogers Cable]].{{Citation needed|date=April 2021}}

Children's programming air under the commercial-free preschool programming block called [[CBC Kids]]. In French, the children's programming block is ''Zone Jeunesse'' on [[ICI Radio-Canada Télé]].{{Citation needed|date=April 2021}}